Potret Of Education

Portrait of the Education Bang! Bang the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 it became the world's historical record. Japan porakporanda. Coinciding with the same year in Indonesia, precisely August 17, 1945, our nation celebrates independence as a sign of the escape from the hands of colonialism. Japan devastated country, Indonesia's independence. Logic speaking, countries that developed rapidly since early opportunity to establish ourselves of our nation, Indonesia. Fire away from the roast, the reality shows the fact on the contrary, today Japan is superior to establish themselves and the far left Indonesia. The key to the success of the Japanese state to build themselves is, concerned with the development of Human Resources by looking at the education community. The initial steps the Japanese government pascabom atomic sentences imposed by the United States (U.S.) in 1945 that is, sending Japanese students abroad to study with the mission to build the Japanese back. Western books translated into Japanese in order to facilitate the transfer of western science and technology. Later books were sold dengat knowledge is so cheap that people get it easier. From there arose a penchant read on most of the people of Japan.

Japanese are well aware of the cutting edge of education is the teacher. So the Japanese government and people highly appreciate the figure of a teacher, both financially and morally. Imagine for a new teacher who teaches only the Japanese dare to give honorarium of 200 thousand yen or about Rp16 million per month. And to honor senior teacher salary in Japan could reach 500 thousand yen or about Rp40 million. Not surprisingly, full of devoted dedication to the teaching profession because they work properly appreciated. Robert C. Christopher, a former Newsweek correspondent who lived in Japan once said, "look at the attitude of the Japanese teachers, their attention to the totality of the life of their pupils". How in Indonesia? Indonesia lags far behind public education. This is supported by the lack of government attention. If there is concern but not serious and professionally managed. Plus all the non-transparent management processes and policies that are not on target, making the world increasingly beset our nation's education problems. No wonder, when we talk about national education is always a bad impression on the merits alone.

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